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Brazos County Historical Commission

First Baptist Church

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Date Added
1966

“Bryan Station, Brazos County, Nov. 21, 1866…I hope a better day is dawning, for last Sabbath a Baptist church was organized here and 16 members united with it,” wrote Mrs. Sara Dodson. One block west of this site stood first house of worship, a two-story frame building that once was a tenpin alley and saloon; the first pews were planks laid on kegs. Rev. W.B. Eaves was the first pastor. The present church sanctuary, erected 1927, is seventh house of worship since its founding and third to be erected on this site since 1883.

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